Walking Dead Man is the fourth in Mary Kittredge's medical mystery series featuring ex-nurse-turned-sleuth Edwina Crusoe. In this novel, Edwina leaves New Haven's Chelsea Memorial Hospital, her usual milieu, when a young woman named Theresa Whitlock approaches her for help; apparently Theresa has murdered a man, and now he is trying to kill her. Edwina dismisses the case as insanity, but when Theresa is shot dead after leaving her office, Edwina changes her mind and investigates. What she learns about Theresa's past, and about the man she claimed to have murdered, leads Edwina into a dangerous maze of double cross and deception.
Besides which, she has a terrible toothache.
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From Publishers Weekly:
In this convoluted and disappointing fourth entry in the series, Kittredge ( Cadaver ) stymies the sleuthing instincts of former nurse, Edwina Crusoe, now a private medical investigator in New Haven. Minutes after telling Edwina that she's being haunted by a man she murdered (a crime unsolved by the police), pretty young Theresa Whitlock is shot dead in the vestibule of Edwina's office building. Feeling personally involved even though she hadn't agreed to help Theresa, Edwina pries into the victim's life and discovers that the dentist's wife was a former hooker who had been embroiled in a jewel-smuggling scam. The police, including Edwina's husband, homicide inspector Martin MacIntyre, don't show much interest in the case, but dogged Edwina persists, even inviting a slew of unsavory characters into her house for a showdown. Although the lore of forensic dentistry is interesting, the plot never takes off as Kittredge prevents her appealing heroine from cottoning to the obviously fruitful clues that eventually lead to an unsurprising conclusion.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0312083335
- ISBN 13 9780312083335
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages204
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